there is also the part before the part you underlined... Read that again.

What I mean to say, he may or may not have still failed but whatever form and confidence he had also seems to have been lost due to that shuffling..

We miss you, Fardin. :(. RIP.

Originally Posted by vic_orthdox

In the end, I think it's so utterly, incomprehensibly boring. There is so much context behind each innings of cricket that dissecting statistics into these small samples is just worthless. No-one has ever been faced with the same situation in which they come out to bat as someone else. Ever.

Pak did well to promote Afridi at 3 in the semi-final, a KO game, because on his day he can win his team the game .... on the other hand, Dhoni held back the match-winners like Yuvi and YP for late in the KO game against Eng

In T20, if your big hitters are playing well then you should always try to give them as many overs as possible, if they fail then guys like Jadeja and Dhoni, himself, can bat sensible to post a respectable score .... what happened was the opposite, Dhoni promoted himself and likes of Jadeja who slowed things down then guys like Yuvi had to hit out to help post India a decent score or try to catch a blown up RRR